More than 40 lives have been saved to date by our Pacific Islands Medical Aid heart surgery program, thanks our donors, the leadership of cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. David Moore of Baylor Scott White Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas and dozens and dozens of great volunteers. What began as an outreach to Christmas Island in the […]

Two little children diagnosed with congenital heart defects by members of our PIMA Heart Team in Tarawa late last year will be literally saved by HeartGift Austin this month. Under the direction of HeartGift’s national patient coordinator Ms. Sonya Skilling, the two patients, their mothers and Kiribati Ministry of Health nurse are scheduled to arrive […]

For years now, every time one of our Pacific Islands Medical Aid team would visit Christmas Island in Kiribati, we would encounter Iokabwa. a little boy who walks on his knees. He would move about sometimes while sliding on the ground on pieces of cardboard, a task made much more difficult because his hands and […]

DIABETES PIMA is planning a unique and comprehensive diabetes training and treatment program on Christmas Island in Kiribati, starting later this year… where more than 30 percent of adults suffer from Type 2 Diabetes ! It is hoped that we may be able to return twice a year to continue this mission. WOMEN’S HEALTH […]

Critical to our success with heart patients from the central Pacific are the new heart valves needed to replace defective human valves in the dozens of islanders brought to the U.S. needing life-saving surgery. CryoLife cardiovascular specialist Sherry Shaw of Plano, Texas and the firm she represents, On-X Life Technologies, Inc., have been absolutely essential […]

One of the most challenging aspects of PIMA’s donations of much needed medical equipment to small hospitals in isolated islands in the Pacific is the maintenance and repair of the equipment. Young bio-medical technician Taaren Toanikai from tiny Ronton Hospital on Christmas Island in Kiribati struggles with this each day, but is now getting some […]

Thanks to the efforts of dozens of hospital personnel and other volunteers, six more critically-ill heart patients from the central Pacific nation of Kiribati are now well and back home again. Open-heart surgery at Baylor Heart Hospitals in Plano and Denton, Texas saved them all. This third group of heart patients from Kiribati will now […]